A US study of more than a million Medicaid enrollees newly diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD), finds most—nearly seven ...

More older adults are seeking medication and outpatient treatment for opioid use disorder following expanded coverage under Medicare.

For patients recovering from opioid use disorder, particularly from drugs like fentanyl or heroin, the days immediately following a hospital stay are among the most dangerous. A new multi-state study ...

Twenty-four percent of US adolescent treatment centers do not use a “lifesaving” medication. An article appeared today in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Treatments Used Among ...

North Carolina's second Mobile Opioid Treatment Program launches in Greensboro to expand addiction recovery services.

The state health department has opened a new mobile opioid treatment unit in Greensboro — the second of its kind in North ...

The state’s second Mobile Opioid Treatment Program has opened in Greensboro, the North Carolina Department of Health and ...

Hundreds of people are on a waitlist for opioid addiction treatment in Los Angeles County jails as the state presses the system to reduce overdoses and in-custody deaths.

U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today introduced the Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction ...

Sedation rapid opiate detox treatment is for motivated patients who want to live free of all opiates without substituting Suboxone or Methadone. Acute withdrawals are the main reason why such patients ...